465 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2002 by Dell.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.
Subjects
- Cotton farmers -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Boys -- Arkansas -- Fiction
- Migrant labor -- Arkansas -- Fiction